Posted on 08/16/2021 3:50:10 AM PDT by Haddit
Vanity I don't know how to return to a day in Free Republic other than what I've done here. I would like to be able to see on Free Republic the tragedy in Afghanistan unfold. We are able to go back one page at a time, but not forward. The first 3 links will take you back to a place in time on Free Republics Index. Followed by infrequent links to Afghanistan posts.
Free Republic Index Page Chaotic Scenes In Kabul Today Posted 8/15/2021, 6:16:13 AM https://freerepublic.com/tag/*/index?more=3985198
Free Republic Index Page Biden Sends 3,000 Troops, Offers Taliban Bribes, As Afghanistan Disaster Looms Posted 8/12/2021, 11:28:22 PM · https://freerepublic.com/tag/*/index?more=3984590
Free Republic Index Page Taliban back brutal rule as they strike for power Posted 8/11/2021, 1:32:49 PM · https://freerepublic.com/tag/*/index?more=3984186
THE FOLLOWING WERE POSTINGS ON FREE REPUBLIC:
Guard Duty After the Afghan Deluge Townhall July 8, 2o21 | Austin Bay https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3974305/posts
'No compromises' Terrifying footage shows Taliban with brand new US weapons and vehicles Express Jul 6, 2021 | By TOM HUSSEY https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3973691/posts
China to fill the Vacuum in Afghanistan with US Departure? Townhall July 5, 2021 | Bill Wenger https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3973488/posts
Hundreds of Afghan security forces flee as districts fall to Taliban theguardian July 4, 2021 | Emma Graham-Harrison and Dan Sabbagh https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3973412/posts
5 trillion dollars down the drain… https://citizenfreepress.com ^ | July 1, 2021 | Posted by Kane https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3972613/posts
LAID TO WASTE Taliban seizes a THIRD of Afghanistan in blitz offensive after US wastes nearly $1TRILLION in ‘pointless’ 20-year war The Daily Sun (US) ^ | Olivia Burke https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3971777/posts
Karzai says US legacy in Afghanistan is a 'total disgrace and disaster' The Hill ^ | 06/20/21 03:13 PM EDT | BY JOSEPH CHOI https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3969596/posts
Condemning our faithful translators in Afghanistan to horrible deaths: The 180,000 people who bravely allied themselves with us are about to learn that trusting America was a bad bet American Thinker ^ | 06/18/2021 | Thomas Lifson https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3968879/posts
Afghanistan: Children among at least 40 killed in bomb attack on Afghanistan school Sky News UK ^ | Saturday 8 May 2021 | Sky News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3957440/posts
Taliban Overrun Afghan Base, Capture Troops as US, NATO Forces Exit VOA ^ | 05 01 2021 | Ayaz Gul https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3955561/posts
Afghanistan: 'We Have Won the War, America Has Lost', Say Taliban BBC ^ | 4/15 | Secunder Kermani and Mahfouz Zubaide https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3951651/posts
Afghanistan: Stay, Part 2 Townhall.com ^ | April 17, 2021 | Jason Killmeyer https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3951468/posts
Biden Bids Farewell to a 'Forever War' Townhall| April 16, 2021 | Pat Buchanan https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3951155/posts
Breaking — Biden won’t remove troops from Afghanistan by May 1… Blows up peace deal negotiated by Trump… https://citizenfreepress.com ^ | Posted by Kane on April 13, 2021 12:19 pm https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3950317/posts
Amid A Wave Of Targeted Killings in Afghanistan, She's No. 11 On A Murder List NPR ^ | March 21, 20218:01 AM ET | DIAA HADID, KHWAGA GHANI https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3943977/posts
Biden’s 'Power-sharing' Proposal to Afghan Parties Won’t Work. Full Withdrawal Will. Townhall March 13, 2021 | Daniel L. Davis https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3941863/posts
Accidental Blast During Bomb-Making Class Kills 30 Taliban Fighters Breitbart ^ | February 16, 2021 | Gabrielle Reyes https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3935230/posts
This is so bad it is almost unbelievable. Completely unprecedented in our history. Time for the nation to repent and turn back to God. Now.
I agree.
That’s why I wanted to preserve this time in history.
We lost so many great soldiers over there. But it was not for nothing. We have many soldiers who now have combat experience and important life experiences due to their service in Afghanistan. We should never have been there for more than the first six months after sweeping the Taliban out quickly. If we had left then we would have been the only country to go in there, kick teeth out, and leave with just a few hundred losses.
We should never have gone into Afghanistan. We should have known better after we helped the Afghani’s beat the Russians in the 1990s. The Russians were laughing their assess off when we went in. Afghanistan isn’t a nation so much as a bunch of loose mountain tribes. There isn’t a civilization or infrastructure to beat. It is just whackamole.
All we had to to is take out various terrorist camps as they popped up. No, it wouldn’t have accomplished much, but neither has 20 years of war — at far lower cost at loss of life and dollars. I was mad when we went into Afghanistan. Even a dunce like me knew better than to do that.
I can assist. I have experience manipulating the FR engine to get the results you want.
I have to work for a while but when my workday is done I will return here and educate.
Afghanistan in title search
https://freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=Afghanistan%20
The Afghan army, built up and generously supplied by the American military, was probably dealing through backdoor channels to lay down their arms/join the Taliban once the Americans left. Things happened a bit too quickly.
Thanks Laz, I’ll check back later.
They had 20 years of relative freedom. That is enough time for the children to get an education and become adults.
Are they that daft to accept the Taliban?
I saw the video of the Taliban coming into Kabul.
Why weren’t the C130s and Warthogs obliterating them when they were out in the open?
I saw our mission in Afghanistan as keeping the peace in cities
Wikipedia says that 8.2 million Afghanistan’s were going to school in 2013, up from 1.2 million in 2001.
3.2 million girls in 2013 up from less than 50,000 in 2001.
I understood what we were doing in Afghanistan, but what the hell were we doing in Syria?
Thanks deport
The ccp/Biden regime
was probably dealing
through backdoor channels
to have the afgani forces
lay down their arms/join
the Taliban once the Americans left.
Things happened just as planned,
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cuz it’s incompetence or complicity,
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and no one is that naive in D.C.
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.and that’s my honest opinion
guaranteed by the 1st amendment
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so bugger off DOJ/DHS.
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I got sidetracked and was trying to compare Afghanistan to Syria.
Before the junior varsity team became the varsity team in 2014,
Obama’s stated reason for going into Syria was because Assad was a bad man.
73,295 died in Afghanistan, 2,420 Americans.
600,000 died in Syria, 10 American Servicemen.
6 million Syrians became refugees.
How many Afghan refugees will there be?
How many illegal aliens is Biden going to let into our country?
Now that we know White Christians are the terrorists, we know why the
Dems are trying to flood our country with non-White immigrants.
We know we are being silenced by social media while BLM are being promoted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)
Afghan security forces:
65,596+ killed
Northern Alliance:
200 killed
Coalition:
Dead: 3,562
• United States: 2,420
• United Kingdom: 456
• Canada: 159
• France: 89
• Germany: 57
• Italy: 53
• Others: 321
Wounded: 22,773
• United States: 19,950
• United Kingdom: 2,188
• Canada: 635
Contractors
Dead: 3,937
Wounded: 15,000+
Total killed: 73,295+
Taliban: 51,000+ killed (no official numbers, incomplete according to Brown, can be higher)[45]
al-Qaeda: 2,000+ killed
ISIL–KP: 2,400+ killed
Civilians killed: 47,245
Syria
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/syria
Events of 2018
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a monitoring group based in the UK, estimated the death toll since the start of the war to be as high as 511,000 as of March 2018.
Years of relentless fighting left 6.6 million displaced internally and 5.6 million around the world, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
https://data.unhcr.org/en/situations/syria#_ga=2.176393632.48290673.1629116333-745414408.1629116333
There are 5,633,857 registered Syrian refugees as of August 5, 2021.
3,696,919 in Turkey
855,172 in Lebanon
669,497 in Jordan
247,044 in Iraq
133,568 in Egypt
31,657 other
https://www.statista.com/chart/19581/syrian-civil-war-fatalities-documented-by-syrian-observatory-for-human-rights/
Tracking Syria Conflict’s Enormous Death Toll
by Niall McCarthy
Oct 8, 2019
Many international monitoring groups stopped counting the number of deaths in Syria’s civil war as the conflict grew in scope and complexity. The United Nations gave its last estimate in 2016, stating that 400,000 people had been killed. A new and possibly bloody chapter in the conflict’s history is now set to open on Syria’s northern border after President Trump ordered a shock withdrawal of U.S. troops, paving the way for a Turkish incursion.
The move has abandoned America’s Kurdish allies and left them at the mercy of the Turkish military. The most recent estimate of deaths in the war was carried out by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in December 2018. They estimate that 560,000 people were killed in the conflict up to that point, of which 111,330 were civilians, 65,048 were Syrian soldiers, 65,108 were members of radical groups and 63,561 were members of the opposition.
560,000 Deaths:
50,296 pro-Syrian militias
63,561 Opposition fighters
65,048 Syrian soldiers
65,108 Members of radical groups
111,330 Civilians
202,982 Unknown/Undocumented
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Syrian_civil_war
Estimates of the total number of deaths in the Syrian Civil War, by opposition activist groups, vary between 494,438 and about 606,000 as of June 2021.
51 Americans were killed.
10 American Servicemen were killed.
Somethings wrong when social media can ban President Trump and help terrorists.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/world/middleeast/16google.html
FEB. 15, 2011
BARCELONA, Spain — Eric Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, said Tuesday that the company was “very proud” of Wael Ghonim, a Google executive who helped plan the protests that culminated in the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.
This will surprise you.
Did America just lose Afghanistan because of WhatsApp?
Preston Byrne ^ | August 15, 2021 | Preston Byrne
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3985366/posts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npd4OSPJrt0
Biden on Syria:
One, the idea of identifying a moderate middle has been a chase America has been engaged in for a long time. We Americans think in every country in transition there’s a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind sign humble to some rock or a James Madison. Beyond once and you, the fact of the matter is the ability to identify a moderate middle in in Syria was, there was no moderate middle because the moderate middle are made up of shopkeepers not soldiers. They’re made up of people who in fact have ordinary elements of the middle class of that country.
And what happened was, and their history will record this because I’m finding that former administration officials soon as they leave write books which I think is inappropriate, but anyway, no I’m serious, I do think it’s inappropriate at least, you know give the guy a chance to get out of office. Um and what what what my constant cry was, that our biggest problem is, our allies, our allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria.
The Turks were great friends, and I have a great relationship with Erdogan which I’ve just spent a lot of time with the Saudis the Emiratis etc. What were they doing?
They were so determined to take down Assad and essentially have a proxy Sunni-Shia war, what did they do? They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad except that the people who were being, who were being supplied, were al-Nusra and al-Qaida. And the extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world.
absurd post
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